ABSTRACT
Trans intellectuals have been instrumental in metaphorically aligning transgender people with the nation. By examining the development of the discourse of the nation along the axis of transgender, one is led to realize the persistence of the relation of trans individuals to the idea of the active, political citizen of the nation-to-come, just as cisgendered individuals like biomen and then biowomen first did in the yet-to-be-realized nation. "Bambi" is the stage name of Marie-Pierre Pruvot, who is the most famous transsexual alive in present-day France. The Vichy government collaborated with the Germans, who then occupied metropolitan France as of 1942. In Michelle Cliff's novel, nationalism is construed as a resistance to American imperialism the way Algerian nationalism was construed as a resistance to French rule in colonial Algeria, which, incidentally, became independent in the same year as Jamaica-1962.
